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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenSearch vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

bangdb.com

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Amazon Web Services

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2012

2010

2021

2020

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.1.3, April 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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